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To explore fronted adverbials

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The Windrush - Diary writing

﻿Hi everybody. And welcome to our lesson today. So we're continuing on with our windrush unit and it's our first outcome still. So we're still working on our diary entry but today we're having a real skills focus on learning about fronted adverbials and different types of fronted adverbials. This is going to be really helpful for us to use in our writing. Our learning objective today is to explore fronted adverbials. This is less than six of 10 for outcome number one. In this lesson, you will need your exercise book or paper, your pen or pencil and your best learning brain. Pause the video if you need to go and get anything. So today's agenda for learning. Firstly, we're going to begin by learning what phrases are. Then we're going to look at types of adverbial phrase. Then we're going to identify types of adverbial phrase and we're going to finish our lesson by writing sentences which include adverbial phrases. So for our warmup, we are going to learn about phrases and clauses. Try filling in the blanks. A clause is a group of words which contains a.. have some thinking time and say the full sentence out loud if you think you know. Okay, pause the video if you need some more time, but three, two, one a clause is a group of words which contains a... Well done, a verb. Say it with me. A clause is a group of words which contains a verb. So phrases and clauses. There's a difference between the two. A phrase is a group of words without a verb. Your turn. Well done. A clause is a group of words that contains a verb. Your turn. Excellent. Well done. So here we have some examples of phrases. The golden shining sun, your turn. Excellent. Now this phrase is all about unknown. So it's called an expanded noun phrase. Without warning your turn. Well done. On the Empire Windrush your turn. Excellent. So on the Empire Windrush is a type of adverbial phrase. Now we learned about it in our Sherlock Holmes unit. So if you joined me for our Sherlock Holmes lessons can you think back to what type of adverbial phrase it is? Now we think, say it out loud if you can remember. Well done, it's a prepositional phrase. Giving away the position of a noun. Here we've got some clauses. Dad bought the tickets, your turn. I was speechless, your turn. Writing this now, your turn. Well done. Excellent. So bought is the verb. So that's why this is a clause. Dad bought the tickets. Can you spot the verb in I was speechless. Hmm. So a verb is a doing or a being word. If you can do it or you are it, then the word is a verb. Hmm. I was speechless. So this is an example of the verb to be and writing this now, what is the verb in that clause? Well done if you've got it, the word writing. Okay. So we are going to decide whether these groups of words are phrases or clauses. So pause the video now, while you do that. Okay everyone, hopefully you've all paused the video. You've all had a go at identifying whether each group of words is a phrase or a clause. Let's go through them together. Okay everyone. So let's start with number one. We're going to England. So remember if it includes a verb it is a clause. If it includes, if it doesn't include a verb then it is a phrase. So we are going to England is a.. Well done it is a clause. The verb is going. Up next number two. Earlier this morning, does it include a verb? Yes or no. It does not include a verb. So that means it is a phrase. It is an adverbial phrase of time earlier this morning when something happened. Brimming with excitement. So does it include a verb? Yes, it does. That verb is brimming. So it is a clause. And number four, my hands are shaking. My hands are shaking. Does it have a verb? It does. The verb is shaking. Well done if you got those. Okay so types of adverbial phrase, an adverb describes a.. Have some thinking time, pause the video if you need. An adverb, describes a verb. My turn, an adverb describes a verb. Your turn. Excellent. An adverb can be one word and it often ends in ly the suffix ly or we can have an adverbial phrase a group of words which describes a verb. So fronted adverbials can either be one word or a group of words use at the start of a sentence. So fronted adverbials, they can be one word which is an adverb or a group of words can be used to describe the time that something happened the place that something happened or the manner in which something happened. So it can explain when, where or how a verb took place. So I would like you to try spotting the fronted adverbial in this sentence. Now this sentence has got an adverb in it which means it's only one word. Let's read the sentence together. Excitedly, dad told us all about how we'd be moving to England next week. Hmm. Where is the fronted adverbial in this sentence? Point to it if you can see it and say it out loud. Well done if you've got that. The fronted adverbial is just one word, it's an adverb. And it tells us how dad told us. Now a group of words. Now we've got a fronted adverbial which is an adverbial phrase. Let's read the sentence together. With a huge smile on his face, dad told us all about how we'd be moving to England next week. Can you find and point to the fronted adverbial phrase here? Well done everybody. With a huge smile on his face is are fronted adverbial, This front, both of these fronted adverbials gave us more information about how dad told us. Okay, everyone so we know that fronted adverbials give extra information about time, place and manner. So when, where or how a verb took place. With a stunned expression, I looked at mum. Your turn. Great, now your task. Look at the fronted adverbial with a stunned expression. Is this a fronted adverbial of time, When, place, where or manner how? Pause the video if you need some time to decide. Okay, everyone hopefully we've all decided whether this fronted adverbial with a stunned expression is, is a fronted adverbial of time, place or manner. It is a fronted adverbial of manner. Manner just means how I looked at mum. How did I look at mum? I looked at her with a stunned expression. Downstairs in the kitchen, I could hear mum singing as she cooked us ackee and salt fish. Your turn. Well done everyone. Now I fronted adverbial is downstairs in the kitchen. Is this a fronted adverbial of time, place or manner? Does it tell us when, where or how mum was singing? Pause the video if you need. Okay everyone I'm going to reveal in three, two, one. This is a fronted adverbial of place. Also known as a prepositional phrase. Tells us where mum was singing. She was singing downstairs in the kitchen. Now this sentence, let's read it together. Silently, my sister stared at me as dad spoke, your turn. Now point to the front of adverbial. Well done, silently. This is just one word at the start of a sentence. It's an adverb. Now the Verb is stared. So does this verb si.. does this adverb silently tell me when, where or how my sister stared at me. Pause the video if you need going to reveal in three, two, one this is a fronted adverbial of manner. It tells my reader how she stared at me. Now let's read this sentence together earlier this morning I heard dad arrive home from his meeting in time. Your turn. Well done everyone. So the fronted adverbial earlier this morning the verb is heard. I heard dad arrive home. Does this fronted adverbial tell my reader when I heard dad, where I heard dad or how I heard dad. Pause the video if you need. Going to reveal in three, two, one, well done this one tells my reader when I heard dad arrive home. Okay so now we're going to have a practise at identifying types of adverbial phrase. Okay everyone, so your task is now to sort the fronted adverbials into time, place or manner. Let's read the fronted adverbials together first. With delight in his voice, your turn. Tonight, your turn. In my bedroom, your turn. In rage, your turn. At school. Your turn. After the meeting, your turn. Well done so I've got a mixture here. Most of these fronted adverbials are adverbial phrases meaning groups of words which give more information about the verb but I've also got just one fronted adverb the word tonight. Now your task is to pause the video while you sort the fronted adverbials into time, place and manner. And I will see you when you are ready. Okay everyone hopefully we've all taken some time to pause the video. And now I am going to reveal our answers. So fronted adverbials of time are tonight and after the meeting. Fronted adverbials of manner, in rage and with delight in his voice. and fronted adverbials of place, at school and in my bedroom. Those fronted adverbials of place are also known as prepositional phrases. Now we're going to come to the final section of our lesson. We are going to start writing sentences which include fronted adverbials. So I would like you to add fronted adverbials to the sentences. Dad left to go to a meeting for ex RAF service people. Now dad left. Left is the verb. I need some more information. So you can tell me how our dad left, when dad left or where dad left, depending on which one you think is most appropriate. Okay I'm going to show you my example. It might not be the same one as yours and that's okay cause there are lots of fronted adverbials you could have used here. Mine was early this morning, so let's read it through together early this morning, dad left to go to a meeting for ex RAF service people. So this is a front adverbial of time. Now I would like you to reread your sentence read as a whole sentence. Remember your comma and then ask yourself is my fronted adverbial one of time, place or manner. Okay up next. Add fronted adverbial to this sentence I stomped up to my bedroom. There is no way I'm going to England. Pause the video. Is it most appropriate to write a fronted verbal of time place or manner here? And then I would like you to say your full sentence out loud and then write it down with your capital letter and you full stop in the correct and your comma in the correct place. Okay everyone, hopefully you've paused the video and you've taken some time to do that. Here's my example. In fury, I stomped up to my bedroom dash. There's no way I'm going to England! Now which Now is my fronted adverbial one of time, place or manner. Hmm. The verb is stomped. This is a fronted adverbial of manner, how I stomped. I stomped up in fury And now for our final sentence let's add a fronted adverbial to this sentence. I had this strange feeling that something huge was going to happen. So pause the video now where you add a fronted adverbial of either time, place or manner to this sentence. Okay everyone, well done for pausing the video and having a go. This is my example. On my way home, I had the strange feeling that something huge was going to happen. Is this a fronted adverbial of time, place or manner? Now the verb is had, so is it when, where or how I had the feeling? Well done, on my way home was a prepositional phrase. So it was a fronted adverbial describing the place or where I had that strange feeling. So now I would like you to pause the video and write at least one sentence with a fronted adverbial even better if it's a sentence that you could use in your diary. And that's the end of our lesson today everybody. Well done for all of your hard work. This all of this learning about fronted adverbials of time, place and manner is going to help us massively when we come to writing in this unit. well done.

To explore fronted adverbials

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